Good ideas are not enough: three lessons for Canada’s global innovation leadership

Canada has an opportunity to lead a new chapter in global health innovation: one focused not only on discovering novel solutions, but on making them available to the people and systems that need them most.

Canada helped build one of the world’s strongest pipelines of health innovation. The next test of leadership is whether we can help those ideas reach the scale of our aspirations, writes Karlee Silver. Image courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY KARLEE SILVER

October 19, 2026

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